However, information and communication technologies (ICT) have the potential for making significant improvements in the lives of these persons, allowing them to enhance their social and economic integration in communities by enlarging the scope of activities available to them.
GAWDS - The Guild of Accessible Web Designers. Accessibility. Accessibility Accessibility in web design means creating web pages that everyone can use.

For a list of new features available in this version of JAWS, see What's New in JAWS 15. For a list of system requirements, see JAWS System Requirements. Read Me First JAWS requires that you restart your computer during the installation process. To avoid problems, always download the JAWS release to your computer first instead of running the executable from the Windows Download dialog box.

Select the appropriate domestic or international JAWS download link that appears on this page. During JAWS installation, the OCR engine for Convenient OCR is automatically downloaded and installed.
Accessibility: Low-Vision Support - The Chromium Projects. We believe that Chrome should provide a complete and satisfying experience to users who have low vision.

Here are three of the most common needs, and how they can currently be addressed in Chrome. Full Page Zoom In order to increase or decrease the zoom level of the currently displayed web page, you can use either the keyboard shortcuts (see table below) or access ‘Zoom->Larger/Normal/Smaller’ in the Chrome Page menu. Page zoom level will be remembered for each unique domain, e.g. if you increase zoom for Google Search ( zoom level will also be increased for Google Calendar ( However, since Gmail ( is on a different domain, zoom level will remain unchanged in this example.

Addressing accessibility. Disability and Development Database. Disability and Development Database. Web Anywhere. Screen Readers. Few of us today can get by without using a computer.

At home or at work the monitor display is our gateway to information, communication, creative projects, shopping, news, entertainment, and even friends.
Welcome to www.guide-evas.com. JAWS Screen Reading Software by Freedom Scientific. Ai squared - making accessibility simple. GW Micro - Window-Eyes.

Window-Eyes is nothing less than the most stable, secure and customizable screen reader available on the market today.

Featuring comprehensive support for computers running Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008, Window-Eyes enables individuals who are blind or visually impaired to be completely independent on a PC and be more successful and productive at school and in the workplace.
EVAS - Assistive Technology and Turn-key Computer Systems for People with Disabilities.

American Foundation for the Blind - Home Page. How Accessible is Your Website? 8 Tools to Analyze Your Website’s Level of Accessibility. Designing a website that’s as much successful as it is effective takes time, skills, and a lot of testing.

Normally, when we’re talking about web design and we hear the word testing, the first thing that comes to mind is usability, and that’s fine, but when was the last time you sat down to analyze the level of accessibility of your website?
Comparison of screen readers. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Screen readers are a form of assistive technology.

Voice browsers and screen readers read aloud the text on Web pages and are used by visually impaired people. However, these devices are less effective with certain kinds of content, such as highly graphical material.
Metalmouth - Developing an open source voice browser extension for Chrome. Voice browsers are one type of assistive technology for people with visual disabilities.

They typically speak out-loud the content on the screen and allow a user to interact with it via voice commands or input from the keyboard. Overview The aim of Project metalmouth is to develop a free fully functioned open source voice browser as an extension for Chrome, to give Chrome users the best possible experience when interacting with a spoken web - by voice commands (using the new HTML5 Speech API) or using the keyboard. The marvellous folks at Google have continued to improve their Chrome based text-to-speech engine chrome.tts - which is now fully integrated. The Project metalmouth app accesses the Document Object Model (DOM) of the web page being viewed directly so there is no reliance upon Accessibility APIs (IAccessible, IAccessible2, AT-SPI, etc...), or updates to these APIs.

Easy Download What's coming - 2014 We now have the opportunity to upgrade the metalmouth extension! Getting involved. Colour Blindness Check - Etre. Approximately one in twenty people have some form of colour blindess that prevents them from seeing colour the same way that people without any colour vision deficiencies do. Many images and resources on the web are coloured in such a way that it's difficult for users with vision deficiencies to comprehend them. We've seen many examples in our time, including theatre seating plans where colour blind users couldn't differentiate one section of seating from another! There are a number of colour blindness conditions, including the three simulated by our tool.
Comparison of Accessibility Features in Various Versions of Windows.

WAVE - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool. Equal Access to Software and Information. EASI is a non-profit organization, commited to the belief that students and professionals with disabilities have the same right to access information technology as everyone else. The information technology revolution combined with adaptive applications for people with disabilities provides us with the opportunity to give students and professionals the most level learning and working space in history.

EASI delivers month-long, online courses about designing information systems that will facilitate institutions in achieving this exciting dream.
Website and Enterprise Search - WCAG Compliance Auditor. How Accessible is Your Website? Meeting the latest Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is required by law for many organisations. Discovering, monitoring and improving progress against these guidelines should be part and parcel of a webmaster's toolbox, but can seem like an insurmountable problem - too large to even measure, let alone fix. Funnelback offers a website accessibility audit service to help you to achieve WCAG compliance. The service checks entire websites, and even groups of websites, against WCAG accessibility criteria. It identifies failures, provides recommendations on how to fix errors and delivers a benchmark against which accessibility can be measured over time, ultimately helping organisations to achieve compliance.

Find out more about Funnelback's Compliance Auditor.
How to Meet WCAG 2.0. WCAG Overview. Introduction Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is developed through the W3C process in cooperation with individuals and organizations around the world, with a goal of proving a single shared standard for web content accessibility that meets the needs of individuals, organizations, and governments internationally.
WCAG 2.0 at a Glance. WAI: Strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities Site Navigation W3C Home.